Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation ...

Arlester "Dyke" Christian and his bandmates were packing the dance floor at one of their regular stomping grounds in Phoenix, the Elks Club on Seventh Avenue, when a man approached to ask whose song ...

All the pop-music-history chestnuts apply: Dyke & The Blazers were musical influencers who changed rhythm and blues; their contribution to Phoenix’s musical legacy is unequaled; the members of the ...

The funky farewell number from a rare concert recording of Sly and the Family Stone, from 1967, shows how playful the group was in their early days. The medley, “I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)/Funky ...

Michael Wells, who owns Bailey-Coy Books on Capitol Hill, began noticing Broadway's baby boom a couple of years ago. The street always was a place where you'd see a colorful mix of people, but now ...